As French protesters took to the street this week over the country’s escalating debt crisis, poor school conditions, and political gridlock, retailers were caught in the crossfire. More than 3,000 businesses were looted or damaged over the weekend, according to Commerce Minister Serge Papin, including shops in Paris’s Les Halles district. Those shops included Hermes,
A criminal investigation into Argentine President Javier Milei and his sister’s links to a cryptocurrency scandal has been dropped. The case against Milei and his sister Karina Milei was dismissed by federal judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi at the request of prosecutors, court records show. The Argentinian president had denied promoting the newly launched cryptocoin
Wedding rings were exchanged, and photos of a smiling bride and well-dressed groom made it look like these were legitimate marriages. But federal authorities argued Wednesday that the ceremonies were part of an elaborate, decade-long marriage fraud ring that netted a half-dozen people in Massachusetts millions of dollars. Prosecutors charged six people, including the alleged
Pakistan’s cybercrime agency has arrested a man accused of running a counterfeit operation that caused $126 million (£94m) in losses to the US Postal service. Faheem Akram is accused of having sold fake stamps via a fraudulent website in the US since 2023. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida last month
It’s one of the most urgent problems of the AI age: How to tell if the person you’re chatting with on the Internet is real, or a clever bot pretending to be human. In recent years, the inability to distinguish bots from humans has led to billions of dollars of fraud as AI agents trick
A witness who testified against Andrew Left has himself become involved in an insider trading probe, bringing a new twist to the bombastic short-seller’s fraud conviction. Left’s lawyers this month asked the judge who oversaw his trial to toss the jury’s verdict convicting him of 13 counts of securities fraud. The trial was irredeemably unfair,
